The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-09
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Capt. James 0. Kane has been ordered to
the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
A bill to prevent the adulteration of maple
sugar has been introduced into the Massa-
chusetts legislature.
Father Keller, the imprisoned Catholic
priest in Ireland, has been appointed canon
of Clayne by the bishop of his diocese.
j. Scott, F. Lindsay. j. n Williams and
one unknown man were killed by boiler
explosion in Harrisburg, w. Va, Thursday.
Fred Bartol, of Exeter, N. H., German
boy four years of age, missing since noon
Thursday, was found drowned in the river
yesterday.
The barbed wire manufacturers have per-
fected a scheme to close down large num-
Der of plants, to decrease the output and
raise the price.
= Among the prizes awarded at the Dover
knights OF Labor falr yesterday was grand
upright piano to Miss Carrie Chapman, of
Berwick, Maine.
Lewis Gauden of Woonsocket, aged 109
ueyer sick until week ago died Thursday
night His wife died two years ago at 102
Mr.. Gauden's mother lived to 10S.
Congressman Glover and Judge McLaugh-
lin got into an alteration during the trial of
a case yesterday, and Mclaughlin insists
that Glover must apologize or fight.
The Army Of the Cumberland win hold its
annual reunion in Washington, May IL and
13, and will participate in the ceremonies at
tending on the unveiling of the Garfield
statue.
A train on the Manchester and Lawrence
railroad yesterday, struck a team from Me-
thuen containing John +. Neary, of Law
renee, and Eddie Finn, 8 years old. Finn
was killed. Neary win recover.
Lucius Lathrop, who disappeared from
Newport, n. H., last November, has been
arrested in Florida and brought back to New
port on charge Of forgery. His forgeries
are said to amount to $4,000.
DIR. Windthorst, the German Catholic
leader, has sent telegram to the Pope that
the Centre party will accept the Prussian
ecclesiastical bill as a filial duty to the head
of the church and without any reserve.
A Chinese cook shot and killed Mrs. Jo-
seph Billion, of st. John, Illinois, by whom
he was employed, and also wounded anoth-
er lady and a man. Great excitement pre-
walls in the town, and posse is in pursuit of
the murderer.
Captain Samuels of the Dauntless arrived
in New York yesterday. He denies in toto
the story that Mr.. Colt, the owner of the
Dauntless, interfered with the management
of the Dauntless in the race. He says the
Coronet won simply because she was the
better boat.
Upon complaint of 10 voters of Cray
don, N. H., that in their belief the law
against bribery at the last election was yiO-
lated, legal proceedings have been instituted.
Justice Elisha NJ Kempton, examined five
witnesses. The evidence duplicates promi-
nent Democrats.
Sarah Tinker of West fremont, who was
100 years old January 9th, Is apparently in
as good health as 80 years ago. For eighty
years she has drunk tea for breakfast, a
glass of liquor on retiring, smoked her pipe
after going to bed, and has lived to be 100
years old in spite of her pipe and glass.
The bowl and clothes-pin factory owned
by Aldrich and Brayman at Custer, Michi-
gan, was burned Thursday night Loss
$4,000; insurance $1,000. This was the
largest c!othes-pin factory in the world and
its average daily output was 10000 pins.
The mill will probably be rebuilt.
The strikes in the building trades in
Brooklyn and Williamsburg are extending
and it is believed that all hands will anti
within day or two, unless the bosses grant
the demands of the trainers, carpenters and
masons for an increase of wages. All the
union men of other trades have resolved to
sustain the trainers by striking if requested.
Professor f. L. Capen, of Boston, who
predicted the earthquake last August. sends
ton for an earthquake during the period be-
tween April 7th and 18th, the critical days
being from the 10th to the 18th. But he saws
they will probably not be quite SO heavy as
last years.
Mrs. Jane Rose Roberts, of Monrovia, LII
IBERIA, whose late husband before his death
was the President of Liberia, is in Washing
ton and called upon President Cleveland,
who not only received her kindly but gave
her fifty dollars for a hospital she wishes to
establish in Liberia, and the President also
gave her letter commencing her and the
cause she was pleading to introduce her to
one Of his friends.